Shady Valley, Tennessee

Shady Valley, Tennessee

Shady Valley is an unincorporated community inJohnson County in the northeastern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is just outside of Cherokee National Forest. The roads that run in and around the town are popular among motorcylists since nearby mountains provide nearly 500 curves to navigate. [http://www.motorcycleplayground.com/Roads/421/roads421.html] The most popular road for motorcyclists is US421 which offers many challenging curves and very little traffic.

The town holds an annual Cranberry Festival in mid-October with food, parades and auctions. [http://pages.preferred.com/~jcwc/cranberryfestival.htm]

Shady Valley is also the name of the valley in which the town is located.

Natural history

After the Pleistocene ice ages, species and ecosystems that had shifted southward often survived in local refugia. As a result, cold-adapted ecosystems, like cranberry bogs, remain in Shady Valley, well south of their usual range. [http://www.worldwildlife.org/wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/na/na0403_full.html] Shady Valley once contained an estimated 10,000 acres (40 km²) of boreal cranberry bogs. [Davis, Donald Edward. "Where There Are Mountains: An Environmental History of the Southern Appalachians". University of Georgia Press, 2002, p. 13.]

ee also

* Holston Mountain
* Iron Mountains

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